streetwolf wrote:I want to disable telemetry but haven't found a way to do it.

You use a development build [Firefox/59] which purpose is to provide feedback.If you don''t want to contribute to development, you can try Firefox 57 which is a official release.

You are making an assumption without all the facts. I've been having an issue that when I exit out of Fx and then start Fx again it takes about 6 seconds to get into Fx. I ran Process Monitor and it appears it might have been sending data to presumably Mozilla. I wanted to disable the pref just to see if it was the cause.

I have been testing Inbounds and Nightly's for years so don't give me a lecture. All you needed to ask was why I wanted to unlock the pref.

streetwolf wrote:I want to disable telemetry but haven't found a way to do it.

You use a development build [Firefox/59] which purpose is to provide feedback.If you don''t want to contribute to development, you can try Firefox 57 which is a official release.

You are making an assumption without all the facts. I've been having an issue that when I exit out of Fx and then start Fx again it takes about 6 seconds to get into Fx. I ran Process Monitor and it appears it might have been sending data to presumably Mozilla. I wanted to disable the pref just to see if it was the cause.

I have been testing Inbounds and Nightly's for years so don't give me a lecture. All you needed to ask was why I wanted to unlock the pref.

Did you turning off toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled as I suggested earlier ? No difference in your issue ?

Diorser wrote:You are making an assumption without all the facts. I've been having an issue that when I exit out of Fx and then start Fx again it takes about 6 seconds to get into Fx. I ran Process Monitor and it appears it might have been sending data to presumably Mozilla. I wanted to disable the pref just to see if it was the cause.

Diorser wrote:You are making an assumption without all the facts. I've been having an issue that when I exit out of Fx and then start Fx again it takes about 6 seconds to get into Fx. I ran Process Monitor and it appears it might have been sending data to presumably Mozilla. I wanted to disable the pref just to see if it was the cause.

On Firefox Desktop starting with 58 toolkit.telemetry.enabled is locked to "true" on beta, aurora, and nightly channels (as well as unofficial builds with the 'default' channel). It is locked to "false" in all other cases.

This, rather unstraighforwardly, does not mean Telemetry is enabled. This means that, if telemetry is enabled, we collect somewhat more information. More details about our unfortunately-confusing Telemetry preferences can be found in the docs[1] and in the bug tree rooted at bug 1406390.

To disable Telemetry, uncheck the box in about:preferences labelled "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla". That will disable all data collection from Firefox to Mozilla via Telemetry. The corresponding about:config pref is `datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled`

We plan on straightening out the confusion caused by these historical naming artefacts next year (->2018).